Richard Estep

Pain, torment, and torture. Cruelty, brutality, and violence. The twisted psyches, murder. and yes, even the ability to charm people. Take a deep dive into the terrifyingly real serial murderers, spree killers, and true faces of evil....

Discover the dark secrets that lurk behind closed doors in Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal. You will be left questioning just how well you truly know those around you in this gripping true crime collection.

July, 1863. The small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg is torn apart when two armies collide. Over the next three days, more than 50,000 men will become casualties, while the residents of Gettysburg take shelter in their cellars....

Death comes in many forms, and medical professionals have seen them all. The first pair of hands to hold us when we enter this world and the last to comfort us when we leave it usually belong to a member of the healing profession. Where one finds death and drama, one also finds ghosts....

Stories about demons are rising in pop culture, but accounts of their manifestations have been bubbling up throughout history. Paranormal investigator Richard Estep explores this societal fascination as he strives to identify exactly what demons are and where to find them.

In the early morning hours of June 10, 1912, an intruder forced his way into the house of Josiah Moore and his wife, Sara. During the nightmare that followed, everybody in the house was murdered with an axe....

Many of those who have chosen the medical profession are no stranger to the paranormal. Ghosts walk the hallways of hospitals both old and new, haunting the wards and operating rooms....

All houses have their secrets...but few more so than Whispers Estate, a mysterious house in Indiana in which a local doctor once plied his trade. Legends and rumors swirl around Whispers like mist.

From exploring the tower of London to investigating a haunted Colorado firehouse and a woman tormented by a malevolent demonic entity, paranormal researcher Richard Estep takes you behind the scenes for an up-close-and-personal encounter with a fascinating legion of hauntings....

Malvern Manor has been many things over the course of its life. It was often the last refuge for those suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction, and severe behavioral disorders. Long after the building closed its doors for the final time, many claim some of those residents never left....

When the Blumberg family left the big city behind to live in a rural Canadian funeral home, nobody was surprised when it turned out to be haunted. Plenty of things went bump in the night during the filming of their smash hit reality TV show.

Although class may no longer be in session, the hallways of this rural Iowa schoolhouse are far from empty. Unexplained phenomena such as phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, shadow figures, and even full-bodied apparitions lurk within....

On December 20, 1924, the newest hotel in downtown Los Angeles opened its doors. Catering to businessmen, bankers, theatergoers, and travelers, the Cecil started out as a home away from home for the city's high rollers. Then came the Great Depression....

During one of the hottest summers on record, a group of friends got together for that most American of traditions: the road trip. But this was no ordinary journey. This team of paranormal investigators set out to explore ten of the country's most haunted locations....

When John Wayne Gacy, one of America's most depraved serial killers, went to his death by lethal injection in 1994, that ought to have been the end of it. It wasn't....

Join author Richard Estep as he and a small team of paranormal investigators move into the Fairfield Inn and work to uncover its many secrets. Accompany them on a tour of the most haunted parts of the Gettysburg Battlefield....

Stories swirl around Ashmore Estates...stories of ghosts...of demons...of dark entities who attack the unwary. Does the laughter of a little girl who burned to death still echo through the empty rooms?

Indiana's Monroe House is a place of mystery, darkness, and strange occurrences. It has a reputation for occult rituals and violent paranormal activity that has sent visiting investigators running off into the night....

How well do you know your neighbors? Maybe you should get to know them better! Growing up, we are taught that monsters are easy to identify, but the truth is very different. Too often, the serial murderer does not stand out. Otherwise, he, or she, would get caught.

Built on top of the old city cemetery, Denver Botanic Gardens sits upon thousands of unrecovered human remains. Small wonder, then, that visitors and staff alike have reported all manner of ghostly activity, ranging from disembodied voices, cold spots, and phantom footsteps....